Xinshun 1730

Chapter 592 The Legacy of the Sea Coachman
Both of them are in Batavia, and their understanding of the changing situation is at least better than that of the 17-member board of directors that Liu Yu said sat in Amsterdam and made decisions based on imagination and head-slapping.

With Dashun waking up, uncontrollable variables have emerged in Southeast Asia.

It is meaningless to consider whether Dashun will go to Nanyang.

Because, Dashun didn't even need to end the battle in person.

Just like this time when Liu Yu brought the fleet up, like this time when the British sent an ocean-going fleet led by battleships to arrive in Southeast Asia, it would bring subtle changes to the situation in Southeast Asia, which was originally dominated by one family: the invincible, The image of strong ships and powerful guns will collapse in the eyes of the island chieftain Sudan.

Power, sometimes, is there if you believe it, and you don’t have it if you don’t believe it.

The Netherlands is not capable of killing all rebels at any time, but if there are too many people killed, people will believe that he is invincible.

Once some people start to disbelieve, the cost of ruling will suddenly soar.

Once someone starts to doubt whether the Netherlands is really invincible, then those hidden resistance will burst out.

For the future governor of Batavia, it must be a huge challenge.

Dashun controlled Nanyang, Britain controlled Nanyang, or the various sultanates rebelled against the rule of the Netherlands. For Dashun, there is a huge difference.

But in the Netherlands, is there a difference?
Valknier thought to himself, he should walk off the stage with applause, and leave this mess to those new governors who have the same ambition and fanaticism as me a few years ago.

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When the governor of Batavia had the idea of ​​retreating bravely and returning home, in Lian Fuguang's manor, Liu Yu was happily declaring the inevitable fall of the old Netherlands and how to inherit the Dutch heritage.

Unlike Valkneer and Phillips, who were thinking about intrigue and internal blame, most of the people discussing in this tightly sealed room at this time were a group of young calves.

These are the confidants selected by Liu Yu. Except for the older Kang Bushao, Mantou and others, the rest are orphans who came with the ship and were selected for free education.

The outside of the room was tightly guarded by soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.

However, in this closed room, there was not a single conspiracy or even a single trick discussed.

But just to learn there, to use a different perspective to see the truth of this covered world.

Liu Yu stood in front, with a map of Europe and a map of the world hanging from the missionaries behind him.

By his hand, there is a simple balance, nothing is on it, and it is in a perfect balance at this time.

The blackboard made by the carpenter behind him is written with some words that people outside know every word, but they don't know what it is when they are connected together.

Words like class, contradiction, business, market, labor cost, subjective, objective.

Holding down the scale at hand, Liu Yu turned around and wrote the words "East India Company" on the blackboard.

Turning around, he said with a smile: "No matter who the East India Company is, don't look at the changes he brought about objectively. You must keep in mind that his subjective purpose must be to make money. Capital is for profit."

"Understanding this, the fog of many things will be lifted."

"To make money, you have to sell something. Whose money is it?"

"Either, sell your own things to others; or, sell other people's things to the people of your own country."

"Then you say, the East India Company's monopoly power was originally intended to make money from others? Or to make money from the people of the country?"

"The subjective desire remains unchanged, but the objective conditions change, and the East India Company's business methods will also continue to change."

"This is the fundamental reason why I said that the Netherlands can be used to cooperate with the Netherlands after defeating the Netherlands. It is also why I said that it is possible to cooperate with Sweden and the Netherlands, but it is absolutely impossible to reach cooperation with the United Kingdom and France on trade. "

After speaking, he touched the balance beside him, picked up a weight, and placed it on the left.

"This is the benefit of the British East India Company using Chinese goods to hit the domestic market and earn money from the British people and the common people in the colonies. In other words, this is the possibility of the British East India Company being compradorized."

At this point, the balance naturally tilts to the left.

Then, Liu Yu reached out and took out six or seven weights, and placed them on the right side one by one.

"This one is the aristocratic interests of the British enclosure movement. They raise sheep. They need high wool prices, and the basis for the high wool prices is to sell woolen fabrics abroad instead of shipping cotton cloth from China and India back to the UK."

At this point, the balance is balanced.

Liu Yu put down another weight on the right.

"This one is for the emerging textile bourgeoisie in the UK, especially those wool mills that spend a lot of money and employ hundreds of people. They absolutely oppose the entry of cotton cloth into the UK."

The balance has already tilted to the right, but it's not over yet, Liu Yu continues to add weight to the right.

"This is the glass manufacturing industry in the UK, this is the porcelain firing industry that has just started in the UK, and this is the coffee planted in the West Indies of the UK..."

In the end, he took the largest weight and threw it to the right.

"This is the concept of mercantilism popular in Britain at this time. If you want to be a brave man, you should only eat gold and silver."

Seeing that the balance had tilted seriously, Liu Yu said with a smile: "So, it is impossible for Britain to cooperate with us. The East India Company intends to act as a comprador, but it is powerless, because it cannot compete with the unanimous interests of the other companies. Besides, his East India Company is now It's still in vain, it hasn't occupied India yet, and it doesn't fart."

Pushing his hand, he poured out all the weights on the balance, and when the balance regained its balance, Liu Yu said: "I said, England can't do it, but the Netherlands can. But this Netherlands is certainly not the Netherlands at this time."

After all, he put the biggest weight on one end of the balance.

"When Nanyang was still in the hands of the Netherlands, there was absolutely no possibility of cooperation between us and the Netherlands. But..."

He stretched out his hand, took away the biggest weight, and asked, "What if we take down Nanyang?"

Those present looked thoughtfully at the balance, which was still swinging from side to side for the time being, but would eventually return to balance.

This sounds incredible, let the Dutch East India Company act as a comprador?

However, if you think about it carefully, if you analyze the words on the blackboard, it seems that there is such a possibility.

In Liu Yu's view, the Dutch East India Company was a qualified potential comprador.

VOC and BEIC are completely different.

The Dutch light industry and handicraft industry have been destroyed due to the premature transformation of the commercial and financial industries, and the Netherlands has been hollowed out.

Success is also in Southeast Asia, and failure is also in Southeast Asia.

History is sometimes viewed from a longer perspective.

The Netherlands was once too powerful, and it snatched Southeast Asia, which was coveted by Europeans in the last era.

India was the second-best target for the UK after failing to compete in Southeast Asia; even New York was "rewarded" to the UK by the Netherlands, because in the last era, the entire North America—of course excluding the silver mining areas of Spain—were inferior to one Little Ambon is worth the money.

But times have changed.

Taking a hundred years as a unit, the Dutch took an absolutely correct path in the last era.

Taking 300 years as a unit, this step of the Dutch is outrageously wrong.

This is no longer an unchanging, static era in which people from 500 years ago were resurrected from the coffin and lived without hindrance.

If Liu Yu wanted to completely destroy the old Netherlands, he would naturally also consider creating a new Netherlands.

Holland is strong.Still going strong.

If Dashun is in the Atlantic Ocean at this time, the Dutch navy can move the capital of Dashun to Xijing to avoid its edge and the coast will be deserted.

But Dashun is not in the Atlantic Ocean, but in the Pacific Ocean.

The Dashun Navy, which was defeated by the Netherlands in the Atlantic Ocean, was completely annihilated by the Netherlands. No mother knew that it could defeat the Netherlands in the South Seas. VOC is the most important lifeblood of the Netherlands, and this lifeblood is now in the hands of Dashun. .

Cutting off the lifeblood of the Netherlands, Dashun has the possibility of conducting business cooperation with the Netherlands, and the possibility of dissolving and reorganizing the Dutch East India Company and becoming a comprador group.

In the Boston Tea Party event in history, the smugglers made tea smuggled from the Netherlands.

But now, Zeeland Province and the Swedish East India Company are equally divided. Because the Netherlands was neutral during the seven-year war in history, Zeeland Province was able to fully expand the smuggling industry and basically crushed the undercapitalized Swedes.

Now the two major smugglers with the Seven Years War as the watershed, Liu Yu will be in his hands.

The East India Company imagined by many people is the pawn of capitalist commercial dumping, but at least that is not the reality at this time.

The reality at this time is that the East India Company earns money from the people of its own country, and sells Indian and Chinese goods to the European people.

The British East India Company could not act as a comprador, because the domestic textile industry, big landowners, old aristocrats raising sheep in enclosures, glass manufacturing, British porcelain, etc., represented the power to sell goods abroad.

Britain is eager to be a comprador force, but it can't win against the powerful emerging bourgeoisie and old aristocracy in Britain.

The Netherlands is the exact opposite.Just missing an opportunity.

The domestic handicraft industry in the Netherlands has been ruined, and the handicraft talent bonus that the "Edict of Fontainebleau" expelled Protestants has almost eaten.

The most important thing is the over-development of the financial industry and commerce, which makes the capital of the Netherlands flow to the commerce and financial industry as a matter of course-just like Liu Yu thinks that there is no way to issue national bonds in Daming or Dashun. In the Netherlands, if overseas investment Speculation with the financial industry can have an average annual rate of return of 10%. Will capital invest in handicrafts with an average annual rate of return of only 5%?
You can make money by lending money, speculating in stocks, and speculating, so why build a factory?
People of insight in the Netherlands called for "revitalizing the national industry and making the Dutch textile industry great again", so the bosses of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with patriotic enthusiasm, invested money in the non-profitable textile industry?
Besides, the conditions in the Netherlands, as well as the wrong path at the beginning, and the excessive success in Southeast Asia also made the Netherlands no longer have the conditions to engage in industry.

The city of Leiden, which is famous for playing with electric Leiden bottles, was once the center of the textile industry in the Netherlands.But now?
Wool is spun in Europe, but the whole of Europe is spinning wool and selling woolen cloth. Everyone is crazy about introversion, and high tariffs are imposed on each other.

The UK has enclosure sports to raise sheep, France has unique arable land and pasture conditions, what does the Netherlands have?
Wool depends on buying, the market is blocked, and spinning does not make money at all.

Premature financial industry and commercial speculation, a large amount of capital accumulation, Dutch prices soared.The average wages of a textile worker in Leiden are three times those in Germany, two and a half times that in Switzerland, and one and a half times that in England.

It’s not that the Dutch factory owners are kind-hearted, but that the prices are too high, and the wages given to the workers must at least ensure that the workers can continue to work as tools, and people have to eat to continue working as tools the next day.

If the industrial bourgeois in the country is unable to suppress the commercial bourgeois, then for the commercial bourgeois, being a comprador is the best choice.

The British East India Company dared to say that it would lower the import tariffs on Chinese cotton cloth. The next day, the company headquarters in London would be smashed by the country's textile industry, wool industry, and enclosure gentry. .

Speaking of this in the Netherlands, of course people in the textile industry want to smash it, but the question is how many people are still engaged in the textile industry?How much strength?how much energyHow many people can you inspire?

The reason why Liu Yu must wait for the Netherlands to participate in the European war is to exhaust the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm of the Dutch.

Historically, the Netherlands has been confused at this time. After the war, the patriotic enthusiasm made the seven provinces unite again and embraced the Orange family.However, when he died, when the whole country mourned, many people had already started to ask: a hereditary family, if you die, you will die, what is there to grieve about?
If the last patriotic enthusiasm of the Netherlands still supports the Orange family this time, and still chooses to join the war, if Dashun suddenly strikes, cuts off the lifeblood of the Netherlands and takes Nanyang, the Netherlands will collapse.

Hollow Holland, the East India Company is not just the profits from trade in Southeast Asia, but it is related to stocks, finance, loans... A single move affects the whole body.Back then, the South China Sea bubble caused the British and Dutch to vomit blood. What if VOC went bankrupt?
Dashun won Nanyang, on the same day, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange will stage a drama of the times: sell-off.

VOC kidnaps the parliament and announces that it is not allowed to sell, so those who have already been dissatisfied with the VOC monopoly will stage a revolution.

VOC abides by the rules and allows selling, then the Netherlands will collapse instantly.The Netherlands collapsed, and VOC’s main business is already lending, and many of them are loans to foreign countries. In the past, the Netherlands was very strong and had to be repaid;
This time, he united with France and brought new guns and cannon technology to France. He used American ginseng and mink to transfuse France with blood, in order to make France bleed more in North America in the future, but now it is to save the little that is left in the Netherlands. The patriotic enthusiasm was completely disintegrated, and told them a cruel reality-times have changed, and the patriotic fanaticism in the small country of the Netherlands will only bring destruction to the Netherlands.

Destroying this last bit of patriotic enthusiasm also removed the last obstacle to the postwar negotiations to make the Netherlands a comprador.

Dutch bigwigs engaged in finance and business neither rely on industry to make money nor invest in industry, so why not cooperate with Dashun to earn pounds and Spanish silver dollars together?
VOC is bound to collapse, but the shareholders of VOC, the masters behind the scenes, still control everything.It doesn't make any difference to open a company and cooperate with Dashun, whether it is called VOC or not.

The local industrial bourgeois are powerless. Even if they have opinions, they think that Dashun's cotton cloth will destroy the Dutch textile industry, but... how many of them are there?How much money do you have?

The Netherlands has a huge transportation industry and well-established smuggling channels. These people also have to eat.

The inheritance of the coachman at sea is the coachman. As for whose goods are transported, does the coachman care?

Is it to follow Dashun, share the profits of Nanyang's trade products equally, cooperate with Dashun, France, Sweden, and North American smugglers to break the British "Navigation Regulations"?
Still... But no, the Netherlands is unable to retake Nanyang, let alone take revenge and break through the capital.

Of course, Dashun didn't have to eat alone. To win Nanyang, in order to save the inheritance of the coachman on the sea, it is better to share half of the cake with the Netherlands.The money we earn together.

Dashun couldn't eat it all by himself, and the Dutch couldn't take back Nanyang, but the same thing, if he didn't die and kept eating alone, none of Dashun's ships would be able to pass Cape Town.Go one, sink one.

(End of this chapter)